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Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
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Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#72At first I was thinking "stupid click bait title", then I saw the pictures. Anything making those craters is properly an explosion. Anything heard 100km away is properly and explosion. If anything this article plays it down with words like eruption and venting. This seems super dangerous for people in the area. And dangerous in the climate change sense for the rest of us.
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Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I keep hitting "refresh" on this page of comments, in the hope that someone with more expertise than I have comes along and tells me it's not nearly as bad as I take this to be (i. e., "we're fucked"). Still waiting, BTW.
There is some hope. We could geoengineer a giant shade structure to reflect sunlight away from earth. It would cost $trillions (twelve zeros) but it could be done with current technology. And it would cool the Earth immediately. Unfortunately it would do nothing to fix ocean acidification, which threatens to starve and/or suffocate us all.
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#74Why do the craters have those sheer sides?
I was wondering about that myself. I suspect this has to do with the violence of the explosion cutting a path to the outside that is a circle because that's the shape the underlying gas bubble would have had.
Which makes me wonder what this landscape looks like during a thunderstorm with lightning hitting the occasional methane deposit.
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#75Let it crash. Human need a lesson.
Lots of humans that have absolutely no say or any kind of influence at all will suffer, so no, let's not let it crash. The 'lesson' you are talking about could easily end the species, it's hard to learn 'lessons' when your species ceases to exist.
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#76If you find this interesting, VICE did a 15min segment on their show recently about this very issue.
Thanks for the mention, love Vice. Would you mind providing a link?
I couldn't find a youtube video of it but here's the HBO.com link http://www.hbo.com/vice/episodes/05/57-when-the-earth-melts-...
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I keep hitting "refresh" on this page of comments, in the hope that someone with more expertise than I have comes along and tells me it's not nearly as bad as I take this to be (i. e., "we're fucked"). Still waiting, BTW.
There is some hope. We could geoengineer a giant shade structure to reflect sunlight away from earth. It would cost $trillions (twelve zeros) but it could be done with current technology. And it would cool the Earth immediately. Unfortunately it would do nothing to fix ocean acidification, which threatens to starve and/or suffocate us all.
That "solution" fucking sucks. We kinda rely on the sun to grow plants and power life, you know?
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
The consensus is that unchecked GW would not be a human extinction event.
Correct, I don't believe that human extinction is in the cards from unchecked GW. Though it could well still be the greatest and most prolonged disaster in recorded history. There is an enormous gulf between minimum thresholds for, respectively: - "Not a big deal" - A catastrophe, comparable to World War II - The greatest catastrophe in recorded history - The extinction of industrialized civilization - The extinction…
That being said, it makes little difference for me among the last 4/5 items in the list
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#79Here is another article about the same event (in german) that has an aerial view supposedly showing the distribution of the craters over one of the islands:
http://www.spektrum.de/news/7000-gasblasen-woelben-sich-in-s...
(The craters filled with water, hence the dark color. The picture doesn't say anything about the craters' depth)
I don't know about the source though, so I guess it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
#80So, assuming we're screwed, where's the best place to move preemptively? I know Boston isn't that place. - I assume the coasts are a nonstarter. - Moving inland could be nice, but the ground would need to be pretty arable to restart civilization there. I'm guessing somewhere in Africa is a safe bet, given the lack of resource exploitation there, but then again, there's not much infrastructure at the moment.
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